CEB Executive Committee member Roderick Balk introduced the WBSC Europe founding congress National Federations with the upcoming Super 6 Baseball Softball in Val d'Europe on February the 11th, 2018.

The event, which will be staged for the first time this year in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, from September 18 to 23, will gather the six best teams of European baseball and the sixt best teams of European softball.

Invited nations to this first event organized by the newly created WBSC Europe will be the first six nations of the 2016 European Baseball Championship: The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and Belgium, as well as the first six nations of the 2017 Women's European Softball Championship: The Netherlands, Italy, Great-Britain, Russia, Greece and Czech Republic.

The competition aims at creating an event which features what Europe has best to offer and bring baseball and softball together for the first time in a joint cooperation.